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The Week in Photos: April 12, 2014

Fort Hood mourns, India votes, and Washington’s cherry blossoms bloom. A look at the most striking images from the past seven days.

Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-4_gwrdik — Bria, Central African Republic
April 9, 2014
A Seleka fighter rides through the regional capital, amid the nation's ethno-religious conflict.

Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-2_hcfnvf — Killeen, Texas
April 9, 2014
Memorials for the three soldiers killed during last week's shooting at Fort Hood are placed before a podium where President Obama was set to speak at a memorial service. Army Spc. Ivan A. Lopez killed three and injured 16 others at the Army base before taking his own life.
Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-5_y7l3oj — Aleppo, Syria
April 6, 2014
Emergency responders help evacuate a boy from a residential building reportedly hit by an explosives-filled barrel dropped by a government forces helicopter in the Shaar neighborhood of the northern Syrian city. More than 150,000 people have been killed in Syria's three-year war, with half the population estimated to have fled their homes.

Khaled Khatib/AFP/Getty

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-7_xiz0fr — Potocari, Bosnia-Herzegovina
April 7, 2014
Mejra Dzogaz cries near the graves of her family members at a memorial center. Dzogaz lost her three sons, husband, and father in the Srebrenica massacre in 1995. Survivors are suing the Dutch government for failing to protect them under United Nations command from rebel Serbs who killed some 8,000 men and boys.
Dado Ruvic/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-11_vngprj — Jerusalem
April 10, 2014
Ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffle with Israeli police during a demonstration against compulsory military service. In the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Sharim, hundreds of protesters stopped traffic and threw stones and bottles at police. The demonstration came a month after Israeli MPs voted through a law that will compel ultra-Orthodox Jews to either serve in the military or perform civilian service.

Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-3_ixoivo — Jammu, India
April 10, 2014
A woman holding her child votes in a polling station in India's general election. Around 815 million people have registered to vote in the world's biggest election—a number exceeding the population of Europe and a world record—and results of the mammoth exercise, which concludes on May 12, are due on May 16.

Mukesh Gupta/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-1_d5dyw4 — Jericho, West Bank
April 6, 2014
Female members of the Palestinian presidential guard watch a training session.
Ammar Awad/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-8_pcrs9a — Tokyo
April 6, 2014
Akira Yaegashi (left) of Japan is punched by Odilon Zaleta of Mexico during their World Boxing Council flyweight title bout.
Toru Hanai/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-9_cit8bk — Antwerp, Belgium
April 10, 2014
Jimmel, an owl-faced monkey, protects her one-month-old baby at the zoo.
Yves Herman/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-10_hzuexc — St. Petersburg, Russia
April 10, 2014
People take a tour in an "upside down home." The exhibition charges less than $10 for a walk through the apartment's three rooms and two bathrooms.

Alexander Demianchuk/Reuters

galleries/2014/04/12/the-week-in-photos-april-12-2014/140412-week-in-photos-6_vz2zny — Washington, D.C.
April 10, 2014
Cherry blossoms and the Washington Monument are seen from the capital's Tidal Basin. The trees should be at peak bloom this weekend.The first cherry trees were ceremonially planted by first lady Helen Taft and Japanese Viscountess Iwa Chinda on March 27, 1912. More than 3,000 trees were planted throughout the modern National Mall and Memorial Parks as a gift from Yokohama, Japan.
Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty

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